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Upopoy, the National Ainu Museum and Park

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Upopoy, the National Ainu Museum and Park, Muroran

Upopoy, the National Ainu Museum and ParkPhoto: 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 4.0

Upopoy stands beside Lake Poroto in Shiraoi, 500 m from the station's north exit. Payment is by cash, card, transport IC card or code, and a ¥600 ticket from 14:00 suits a short visit.

Round trip
7 hr
From the ship and back
Fits
a 9-hour call or longer
Margin already counted
Getting there
Taxi to JR Higashi-Muroran, limited express about 30 min to Shiraoi, 10 min on foot: about 1 h 10 min – 1 h 30 min each way (our estimate)
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Booking
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Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada

Why go

The national museum and park of the Ainu, Hokkaido’s Indigenous people, by Lake Poroto. FY2026 hours: 09:00–18:00 to 31 October, 09:00–17:00 from 1 November; last entry an hour before closing. Closed Mondays (the next weekday if Monday is a holiday). Adult ¥1,200, or ¥1,000 bought online; junior high and younger free. The FY2027 calendar is not yet published.

Before you count on it
  • Closed Mondays (the next weekday if Monday is a holiday). Check the day before you plan around it.
  • This needs 7 hr, so it only fits a 9-hour call or longer. On a shorter one it will cost you the ship, not the view.
Where it is

Upopoy, the National Ainu Museum and Park and your ship

Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.

The arithmetic

Where the 7 hr goes

The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside. The minutes are our estimates from timetables and maps, not timed on the ground.

Out1 hr 30 minTaxi to JR Higashi-Muroran, limited express about 30 min to Shiraoi, 10 min on foot: about 1 h 10 min – 1 h 30 min each way (our estimate)
There4 hrWhat you came for
Back1 hr 30 minTo the gangway

If your ship is late, cut the 4 hr in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.

The day this belongs to

Routes that already include it

Finished days timed from official timetables and our estimates, with this stop in them.

Upopoy, the National Ainu Museum, MuroranUpopoy, the National Ainu MuseumA wet day · ~7h door to doorRain on a 9-hour call or longer; clock times are for leaving the ship at 07:30; the museum is indoors. Not on a Monday, when Upopoy is closed
Pairs well with

What to put beside it

Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.

Build your own day
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Cape Chikyu

Cliffs of about 100 m with the white Chikiu Misaki Lighthouse, first lit in 1920, 130 m above the Pacific.

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Hakucho Bridge and the roadside station

The Hakucho Bridge, 1,380 m long and finished in 1998, is the largest suspension bridge in eastern Japan, and Shukutsu Pier sits at its west end.

See the detailNoboribetsu Hell Valley, MuroranSee · ~7h

Noboribetsu Hell Valley

Jigokudani is an explosion crater about 450 m across, full of steaming vents and boiling springs, that feeds the onsen town with about 10,000 tonnes of hot water a day.

See the detail
The one rule: be back on board 60 minutes before all-aboard. Build the whole day on the Muroran plan page.
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